Connecticut western news., 1887-06-08
OUR CINDERELLA,
BY THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH.


 She was our nursemaid and a sort of factotum. We thought we could scarce y get along without her. And we called her "Our Cinderella" playfully, and not at all responsibility. Our cook had gone of, and, my wife being sick Ut the time, Betty undertook to get our breakfast. She succeeded, after fashion !; but she SO covered her usually neat per- son with ashes and coal smut that my little daughter, Chrissy, called her Cin- derella, and the name stuck.
 The way we got Betty was this. Our boy baby, little Marmadukc, had to be out in the air, and my wife, Mrs. Jud- kin;-I am John Judkins sccdsman and florist, successor to Jarmin S Jud- 'lins-suggestcd that, as the seed shop was doing good business and the greenhouses were run to their full ca pacity, as we were able to keep cook and chambermaid, WIG might as well so farther and have regular French bonne, with ribbons and a cap like a new pudding bag, to wheel little Mar maduke on tho sidewalk. Thus we could add to the comfort of the family and show an admiring population tho prize baby of the period growing thu, two plants on one stalk. l sug ,cstcd in turn that we had better movc out to the garden where there was handsome house for which had not been able to secure a tenant. Here my better half interposcd a veto. Mrs. Judkins had been born aud bred in the city, and in the city she would live and die. Like her father, the late Mir. Jarman, there was no over- coming her once expressed resolution.
 At length this matter was settled by compromise. l didn't get the French bonne, but came upon German one, sort of amateur nurse as it were. A young girl fresh from Car,sruhe, who spoke English very we'll, but lit tie suited, as shc had lcarnel it at school was looking for situation as teacher. She had good recommenda- tions and was vouchcd for as respecta- ble by the German consul, who was an occasional customer of mine. In default of something better, she agreed to teach Chrissy G,rman and the piano, and to give the baby attention and an airing when we thought proper. So I engaged her at very reasonable wages.
 Her name was E,sabeth Rleinfeldt and SO we translated her namo into Eiz. abcth, and from that into Betty. The only drawback was that sho was very pretty and graceful, and had the small est feet and hands had ever seen on a girl; but that just fitted the baby, who was the very-no matter; every one ad- | snitted his beauty. She grew to be in- valuable, for sho turned out to be a good seamstress, and was ready to turn her hand to anything.
 Bit by bit we got her history. Hel father. who was Q cadet of good fami ly, had married tho daughter O. mechanic, when Che head of the hcust cast him riff. He had obtained situ, tion as librarian at Carlsruhe, and thcr, he managed to live comfortably ant educate his only daughter, who hat lost her mother when only five year. old. Then when he die l, the baron her uncle, would have recognized her. but she resented her fathers treatment and rejected his offer of home. Bclievin! she could earn her living in Am,rica Q a teacher, she had sold the hous ,hold effects left her aud came to this countr, with slender purse, whose content were nearly exhau'tei when we got her
 Among my customers was Mir. Pau Exton, rich achcior, who was grea flower fancier aud an amateur gardener with a conservatory large nough for
 greenhouse and great desire to gro, new varieties of plants. H, was nc much over thirty, but had so bronze himself by travel that he looked older When he grew anything novel, which h . rarely did, he always gave me the stoc
 plant to propagate from, so that he WI very useful; and he got in the habit (
 dropping in the shop and chatting ono or twice week, or even oftencr, an we grew quite intimate. One day
 was just two months after B,tty Ina come to us-Extcn came in the sho, He was in state of excitement, and ha evidently not come to buy or to tai plants.
 "Judkins, old f,llow," ho said--f | rays called me Gold fellow" when l was in good humor--I had a queer thin happen to mo to-day. was crossiu
 town to go over to Williamsburg when
 found had ripped ono of-my shoes.
 found German cobbler's shop
 Avenue A, and stepped in to have sewed. While I was waiting for it
 saw, standing, the counter, waitin repairs. a pair of the prettiest fema shoes in the world, They were wol down, but perfectly even on the heel an sole, and the feet they belonged to mu be simply perfect. Small, high instel we'll arched--perfcciion. l said to t! 2 -ni.tler. sT,,e child that wears tho